{"id":12440,"date":"2021-07-29T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/?p=12440"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:16:06","slug":"mandatory-reporting-law-is-harmful-for-pregnant-people-with-substance-use-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/2021\/07\/29\/mandatory-reporting-law-is-harmful-for-pregnant-people-with-substance-use-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Reporting Law Is Harmful for Pregnant People with Substance Use Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Currently in Massachusetts, healthcare providers are mandated to report a person to the Department of Children &amp; Families for suspected abuse or neglect when they give birth to a baby who was exposed to substances designated as &#8220;addictive drugs&#8221; prenatally. Included in this list of substances are methadone and buprenorphine, FDA-approved treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), meaning that healthcare providers are required to report pregnant mothers who are actively participating in evidence-based, physician-recommended treatment for OUD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The CARE Unit&#8217;s Drs. Bagley, and Harris wrote and signed a letter that was sent to the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities in support of <span>eliminating the requirement to report abuse and neglect for babies born with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.<\/span> Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/healthcity\/population-health\/polysubstance-use-driving-overdose-deaths-adolescents\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in Massachusetts, healthcare providers are mandated to report a person to the Department of Children &amp; Families for suspected abuse or neglect when they give birth to a baby who was exposed to substances designated as &#8220;addictive drugs&#8221; prenatally. Included in this list of substances are methadone and buprenorphine, FDA-approved treatments for opioid use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16635,"featured_media":12441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}